371. To A. O. ALSKY

Written on September 7, 1921 · First published in 1945 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from a typewritten copy. · page 290

Comrade Alsky:

I asked you for data only from August.^[1] Henceforth:

1) keep a special record of expenditures and issues from the gold stock in a strictly chronological order (of course, apart from the grouping by People’s Commissariats or under specified heads, where such are required);

2) be sure to set apart the expenditure out of the gross amount appropriated by a general decision (say, the appropriations of 100 million for foodstuffs) from the additional spending not provided for by any general decisions.

Unless you observe these rules you will not have a   report but chaos in which you yourself will be snarled up. Before issuing any further instructions, I shall await your reply which you are to give me tomorrow.

Lenin

Notes

[1] See Document 368 of this volume.—Ed.